With Assad ousted, a new era starts in Syria as the world watches
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With Assad ousted, a new era starts in Syria as the world watches

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Syrians awakened on Monday to a hopeful if uncertain future after rebels seized the capital, Damascus, and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia following 13 years of civil war and more than 50 years of his family’s brutal rule. The lightning advance of a militia…

Remains of US last known slave ship, the Clotilda, buried in Alabama river to remain underwater
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Remains of US last known slave ship, the Clotilda, buried in Alabama river to remain underwater

ByNews Polite

The last known US slave ship is too “broken” and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists, engineers and historians announced following a yearslong investigation. The task force headed by the Alabama Historical Commission said Thursday that the…